Bike lifting gang busted; 27 stolen bikes seized, four arrested

Gochapada police in Odisha’s Kandhamal district has busted a gang of bike lifters and has arrested four of them.

Police has seized 27 stolen motor cycles from their possession during raids at different places under Phiringia block. Police has been also successful in arresting the kingpin of the gang Saroj Guchhi. Guchhi hails from a village under Kanpur police limits in Cuttack district.

The accused were nabbed by the police while they were travelling on stolen bikes during blocking at Gochapada. During checking of documents police came to know that the vehicles were stolen. During interrogation police has come to know that the gang used to steal bikes from Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and Khordha and sell those in Kandhamal, police said.